Timothée Chalamet

He had a bronchitis in his early 20s. His voice was all fucked up. And I didn't want it to be watered down. Because he very purposefully was... He liked Jack Kerouac and Moriarty. A lot of the books I read said he didn't have great hygiene or stuff like that, so I didn't want the movie to be watered down all of a sudden.

Yeah, not do this Hollywood version, basically. Right. Because these biopics, it's a fine line, man. And I've never done anything like this. I usually play a role. Actually, sort of. Yeah, Wonka you did, kind of. Yeah, Wonka I did, yeah. But that's maybe not real. No, but it's real. Yeah, thank God.

but don't tell the children thank god thank god no you know probably have to get psychiatric help but um but uh no but and there's a certain pressure with that Wonka too people are like very protective of characters they love you know they don't want and there's sort of like a cynicism about Hollywood you know about like why are they keep revisiting um the Wonka thing I felt was justified because it's a new story we weren't doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory we were doing sort of an origin and uh

By the way, I don't know if you've seen Wonka. Have you? Yeah, which one have I seen? Yeah, I've seen all of them. You watched it while you were in the car spying on the list. You had it playing on the audio.

They had Stevie Wonder at the movie last night. Oh, really? Yeah.

We were up late, and I basically, I shot this movie, Marty Supreme, all of a fall. These crazy directors, or crazy director, Josh Saft. You ever see Uncut Gems?

That director. So it's kind of that energy, that chaotic thing. So it wasn't like a low energy shoot. This was like 16 hour days for three months. Then I went right into this. So I haven't been like drinking at all. Not that I ever really had a problem with it, but just, you know, cause these days and I actually find my mind is so much sharper.

I'm amazed I haven't gotten sick through this whole, like last couple of months. But last night I did have a couple of drinks. I'm kind of fried today, man.

I'm sorry. My voice is a little.

It's like... Oh, here we are. Oh, man. I don't do the, I call it instant nostalgia, you know? Oh, seeing these pictures like this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean... It's kind of bizarre, isn't it? Yeah, it's kind of bizarre, man. This is good because this is – I'll say this. It's a great cast and a great director, so we all have fun. Edward Norton, man. Edward Norton should come on this podcast, man.

He's a legend, absolute legend.

Yeah. Do you play Texas Hold'em?

Errico – Errico.

Look at that. Calm down, brother. I've seen so many people ape your haircut. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And a whole, like, sort of generation of comedians came out of there then, huh?

Is that a bigger comedy base here than New York, you think?

In New York, you don't think you get the love you get out here?

Interesting, interesting, interesting.

It's crazy, right? It's a crazy setup.